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Vermont Learns a Brutal Lesson About Defunding the Police
Matt Vespa | @mvespa1 | Posted: Dec 17, 2021 5:35 PM
Source: AP Photo/Lisa Rathke
It happened in New York. It happened in San Francisco. It happened in Minnesota. When you cut the police budgets, bad things happen. Democrat-run cities are experiencing spikes in crime, including homicides. In Chicago, you might as well save your money and fly there to do your Christmas shopping. You can steal whatever you want without consequence. In the most liberal enclaves, the local leaders tested this far-left action item with disastrous results. In Burlington, Vermont, NBC News was shocked that cutting the police budget had severe consequences. It’s not like there wasn’t a body of work that showed this was a very bad public policy move.
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